Les Tontons flingueurs
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Les Tontons flingueurs (English: Crooks in Clover, also known as Monsieur Gangster) is a 1963 French-Italian-German film, made in the French language, directed by Georges Lautner. It's an adaptation of the Albert Simonin's book Grisbi or not grisbi.
The film was not an enormous popular on first release. But its reputation grew with the passing years and it has now appeared at least 15 times on television, while the DVD version, released in 2002, sold 250,000 copies.
The most famous scene is set in a kitchen where the gangsters try to make nonchalant conversation while drinking a vile, and strong, liquor. The writer Michel Audiard considered it useless and it might never have existed, but the director included the scene it in homage to the film noir Key Largo.
[edit] Synopsis
Fernand Naudin is an ex-gangster, who now deals in agricultural machinery. His small quiet life is rocked when his childhood friend, now a notorious gangster, summons him to his death bed.
[edit] Cast includes
- Lino Ventura: Fernand Naudin
- Bernard Blier: Raoul Volfoni
- Jean Lefebvre: Paul Volfoni
- Francis Blanche: Maître Folace
- Robert Dalban: Jean
- Venantino Venantini: Pascal
- Mac Ronay: Bastien
- Horst Frank: Théo
- Henri Cogan: Freddy
- Charles Régnier: Tomate
- Sabine Sinjen: Patricia
- Claude Rich: Antoine Delafoy
- Pierre Bertin: Adolphe Amédée Delafoy
- Jacques Dumesnil: Louis "the Mexican"
- Dominique Davray: Madame Mado
- Philippe Castelli: the tailor
- Paul Meurisse: a passer-by (Théobald Dromard "Le Monocle")
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